Despite losing the Albert Pujols last winter, the Cardinals won 88 games, the wild card playoff against the Braves, their Division Series against the best regular season team in the National League, and had a 3-1 lead on the Giants in the ALCS before the Giants caught fire and obliterated them and the Tigers on […]

In a parallel universe, Scott Rolen makes a good throw to Joey Votto in the top of the tenth inning of Game 3 of the NLDS, the Reds sweep the Giants, and go on to win their first World Series since 1990. Really, it's possible that Rolen's bad throw is all that really separated the […]

For four months, the Brewers were one of 2012's bigger disappointments. They fell of the pace in the National League early in the season, they traded Zack Greinke, and they hit their season low of 12 games under .500 on August 19th. Then, like a light switch, the finished the season playing like their hair […]


In 2012, the Pirates almost broke their generation-long losing streak and made a run at a playoff spot for the first time since 1992. Then, they fell apart in an epic collapse that wasted Andrew McCutchen's MVP-level performance in 2012 and squandered a ton of goodwill from the fans. Pirate fans were left watching fans […]

With all of the weirdness and excitement that's surrounded the end of the regular season and the new wild card play-in game, seeing the Reds and Giants play in the National League Division Series is something that would've surprised pretty much no baseball fan anywhere back in March. That being said, this matchup isn't quite […]

What are the playoffs, really? What is their purpose? It's easy to say that they exist to determine the best team in any given sport, but I'm not really sure that's the best description. In baseball, at least (which is where our American version of playoffs come from and what I'm talking about today, so […]

We have officially hit the most depressing part of the 2012 MLB post-mortems: the teams that had legitimate playoff hopes this year, before things went terribly wrong. To be fair, it's hard to think of a sadder baseball story than these 2012 Pittsburgh Pirates. After 19 straight losing seasons, the Pirates were in the cat-bird […]

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What else can baseball fans do in January but dream of October? In You May Say I’m a Dreamer, the Outside Corner staff will imagine the route to a World Series in 2012 title for all 30 teams. I always thought there would be some kind of magical turning point, when the Rockies went from a […]

What else can baseball fans do in January but dream of October? In You May Say I’m a Dreamer, the Outside Corner staff will imagine the route to a World Series in 2012 title for all 30 teams. “Same Old Pirates.” For a long time, every single glimmer of hope on Pittsburgh’s North Shore was followed […]

What else can baseball fans do in January but dream of October? In You May Say I’m a Dreamer, the Outside Corner staff will imagine the route to a World Series in 2012 title for all 30 teams. Watching a baseball team come together over a span of several  years is a beautiful thing. When Walt […]

What else can baseball fans do in January but dream of October? In You May Say I’m a Dreamer, the Outside Corner staff will imagine the route to a World Series in 2012 title for all 30 teams.  It’s technically true to say that the Cardinals’ 2012 World Series Championship is their second in a […]

With 2011 winding down, Prince Fielder is still looking for work. When the off-season started, Fielder was firmly planted in the second tier of elite free agents this winter with Jose Reyes and CJ Wilson, just behind Albert Pujols but plenty valuable in his own right. With several teams interested in Pujols, Fielder seemed poised […]

Octavio Dotel signed a one-year deal with the Detroit Tigers this afternoon. That might not seem like big news, except that as soon as Dotel steps on the mound for the Tigers, they’ll be the 13th team he’s pitched for and that’s a Major League record. Dotel’s been efficient, too, as 2012 will be just […]